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We recently talked about being a "servant leader" in my leadership class. Servant leadership was coined by Robert K. Greenleaf. Servant leaders give priority attention to the needs of their colleagues and those they serve. Often seen as humble stewards of their organizations resources. Servant leaders tries to help others solve their problems and develop. The highest priority of a servant leader is to encourage, support, and enable those they lead to unfold their full potential and abilities. Being a great servant leader is hard because it is not just what you do, it is who you are. Southwest Airlines CEO Herb Kelleher and now Colleen Barrett are examples of servant leadership. They see themselves as supporting the employees and giving great customer service to their own employees. A dissatisfied flier will not fly with Southwest again, while a dissatisfied employee will not deliver required performance.
Being a servant leader is very important to me. One of my role models was the perfect servant leader. Christ had all power but he spend his time serving others. It is hard to be a great servant leader because as you get better, as you get more power, the temptation to lead for leadings sake becomes greater and greater.
In my teaching role, I need to realize that I am in front of a class, with a demand upon their time and attention, because I am supposed to be helping them. I am there for them. I am not there for my own reasons, and my own gratification. Sometimes, I feel like my professors in college are only there because it is part of their job. They don't really want to help us learn, they just have to clearly define the benchmark, then hand out the marks.
The more I learn about servant leadership, the more I see how it would solve many of the problems today. Bad bosses, would become good bosses. Corrupt politicians would actually start serving the people who elected them. And I would become a better teacher and leader.
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It is not the "cleanest" user interface. You have to setup, basically a new computer, and you have to buy a copy of Windows, but it works great. Just load up the Virtual Machine and it is like you have another computer. I know so other software packages like VMWare etc allow you to launch application from within OS X, but I don't use that many applications on the Windows side.
If you find yourself consistently, but not not overwhelmingly needing to run Windows only apps, give VirtualBox a try. It is free (aside from the cost of Windows) and it works quite well. Just make sure you have enough ram.
-updated- Sometimes you can get some random errors, but as this forum post explains, just reinstall VirtualBox, your virtual machines are untouched.
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The Solution is to turn off the shortcut. It is easy.
1. Open the Keyboard & Mouse panel in System Preferences,
2. Go to Keyboard Shortcuts
3. Uncheck Front Row.
Done. No more screen going dark and you wondering what is going on. The remote still works great to launch Front Row should you need it.
Any other Mac problem or tip you want to know about? Tell me in the comments.
If your regular boot disk is damaged or if you can't set the CD or DVD as a startup device from the system preference, try one of the following options:
Option key. Icons for all available startup volumes will appear. Click the one you want to boot from, and then click the right arrow button to complete the startup process. Command-Option-Shift-Delete. You must press all the keys at once. The computer will start to boot from the CD or DVD drive. If there isn't a bootable disc inside the drive when you begin the reboot, the computer will attempt to boot from another partition or drive. c key. The computer will look for a bootable CD or DVD and, if it finds one, will use it as its startup device.